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Lincoln's Birthday Exercises 



Arranged by ARCHIBALD HUMBOLDT. 



INTRODUCTION. 



T INCOLN! Magical name. How the heart thrills at 

■ >•) the memory of the wonderful life he lived! Chosen 

of God for a mighty task, reared among difficulties 

unsurmountable except by him ; Divinely inspired in words 

and deeds ; no other life was like his. 

Scholars enter with enthusiasm into the celebration of 
Lincoln's Birthday. They love his name. 

These exercises provide more material than will be 
needed for one program. Select that best adapted to your 
grade, but be sure to combine instruction with entertainment. 
Let the program embrace an outline of Lincoln's life, and 
describe his good qualities and character. Bmbellish the 
program with his own words and pictures of his wonderful 
deeds. 

Use decorations freely. They will add much to the 

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Lincoln's Birthday Exercises. 



SONG—" LINCOLN." 

Tune — " IIoUl the Fort." 

O'er the land to-day is ringing, 
Praise of Lincoln's name ; 

Childish voices now are singing 
Lincoln's glorious fame. 

Chorus. 
Yes, we love the name of Lincoln ; 

Lincoln good and true ; 
Under God he saved the nation ; 

Saved for me, for you. 

He had sworn to do his duty, 

Sworn to do the right ; 
And our Flag, in all its beauty, 

Saved from foeman's spite. 

Lord ! we come to thee, confessing, 

Bound in sin were we ; 
Lincoln, working with thy blessing, 

Wrought and we are free. 



JV. IV. Stone. 

SYMPOSIUM ON LINCOLN'S LIFE AND 
CHARACTER. 

Have ready short papers by the scholars on the following:: subjects : 

a. Lincoln's Boyhood. 

/;. Lincoln's Early Manhood. (See McClure's " Early Life of Lincoln" 
for material on these two topics.) 

c. Lincoln's Political Speeches. 

d. Lincoln as President. 

e. Lincoln's Character. 
/. Lincoln's Religion. 

{Material on these topics may be found in any of the many lives of Lincoln. 
For the last topic, see especially The Christian Advocate, of February 27, 1896, or 

The Independent, of April 4, 1895.") 

'3) 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

A LINCOLN EXERCISE 

By Alice E. Allen. From Primary Education. 
Enter: — Seven small boys, each carrying large letter of bright red paper. 
All recite : {May be sung, if desired, to tune of " Ya7ikee Doodle. ''^ 
We're seven boys of seven kinds, 
Each brings a bright red letter ; 
We've much to say this holiday, 
That all may love it better. 
First : {Stepping forward and holding out letter.) 

This "L#" is a big one, but means " little lad," 
And also "log hut," the first home that he had. 
Second: {As above.) 

To him " I" meant " Indians," — many were near, 
But still in the forest he played without fear. 
Third : 

"N" says there were no schools, like ours, for small boys. 
And tells of no games and no fun and no toys. 
Fourth : 

My " C" means his cap. 'Twas the funniest kind — 
'T was made out of coon-skin — the tail hung behind. 



Fifth 



Sixth 



This round " O " says older and older he grew, 
A strong little fellow, quite honest and true. 



My " L," tells of lessons he liked and he learned, 
And then how the love of all people he earned. 
Seventh : 

My " ]S " means the " Nation " so great and so grand. 
He ruled when a man — our own noble land. 

All {recite or sin g^: 

We're seven boys of seven kinds, 
Each one has shown his letter, 
And said his say upon this day, 
That all may love it better. 
Beginning with the first each lifts his letter high and names it clearly. After 
the seventh has named his, all pronoimce 

LINCOLN. 

77^1? 7vhole school may ?iow recite the motto : 

" God make us worthy of the memory of Abraham Lincoln." 

— Phillips Brooks. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. '" ^ $ 

RECITATION. _ 

For a Boy. 

Our Lincoln, when he was a boy, 

Was very tall and slim. 
You see I'm just a littlp tall; 

I wonder if I look like him. 

Our Lincoln, when he was a boy, -^^ 

Was very brave and very true. 
To-day I'm just a little brave; 

In this I'm like our Lincoln, too. 

Our Lincoln, when he was a man, 

Was loved and honored everywhere. 
I'll be the man that Lincoln was, 

To do this I must now prepare. 

CROWNING LINCOLN. 

An Exercise for Four Pupils. 

LincoMs picture may be placed upon an easel. The first three who speak 
may lay a bit of evergreen at the bottom of the picture — where it rests upon the easel. 
The last one who speaks may slip a laurel wreath down over one of the uprights of 
the easel, 

1. To-day I bring this laurel fair, 

For him our hero grand. 
For Lincoln's name is dear to all 
Throughout this whole broad land. 

2. My evergreen I bring for him, 

His heart was true and brave ; 
In all his work, in all his deeds. 
The best he always gave. 

3. Our country, strong and grand to-day, 

He joined in love and might. 
His praise we sing, his name we love; 
His life was pure and right. 

4. And so this crown of evergreen 

Is for our hero great. 
He saved our country. Freedom gave; 
O, praise him, every State ! 

— American Primary Teacher. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 



EXERCISE FOR THREE PUPILS. 

First Pupil {carrying an armful of books, "-Robinson Crusoe," '^Filgritn's 
Progress," ''Life of Washington," Bible, ''History of the United States"): 

The books were. few that Lincohi had, 

He read the Bible, histories, too, 
"The Life of Washington " charmed the lad, 

And "Pilgrim's Progress" he read through. 

Second Pupil (joith small shovel, ax, and hoe): 
Our Lincoln worked from morn till night, 

He swung the ax and tilled the land, 
Each duty met with will and might. 

Each deed was brave and true and grand. 

Third Pupil {carrying s7vord and fag): 

In war, in peace, throughout each day 

He planned for every state. 
And safely, through a dangerous way, 

Brought Union, Freedom great. 



All: 



With joy and truth we celebrate 

His birthday every year. 
Long live our Lincoln true and great. 

For him give hearty cheer. 



LINCOLN EPIGRAMS. 

Let the roll M called and the Scholars respond to their nafnes by quoting one 
of the Lincoln Epigrams. 

We can not escape history. 

Let none falter who thinks he is right. 

If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong. 

Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe. 

All that I am, all that I hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. 

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. 

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. 

I authorize no bargains for the presidency, and will be bound by none. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 7 

For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to 
change. 

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's 
consent. 

Gold is good in its place ; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better 
than gold. 

This Government must be preserved in spite of the acts of any man, or 
set of men. 

Nowhere in the world is presented a Government of so much liberty and 
equality. 

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it in 
his love of justice. 

If I live, this accursed system of robbery and shame in our treatment of 
the Indians shall be reformed. 

In law, it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you 
oblige yourself to prove what you can not. 

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, 
I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. 

The reasonable man has long since agreed that intemperance is one of the 
greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind. 

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we 
erring mortals may fail accurately to perceive them in advance. 

I know that the Lord is always on the side of right; but it is my con- 
stant anxiety and prayer that I and this Nation should be on the Lord's side. 

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but 
if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but 
that I never deserted her. 

By a course of reasoning, Euclid proves that all the angles in a triangle 
are equal to two right angles. Now, if you undertake to disprove that prop- 
osition, would you prove it false by calling Euclid a liar ? 

I am profitably engaged reading the Bi])le. Take all of this book upon 
reason that you. can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a 
better man. (Said to Joshua Speed, about a year before the President's 
assassination.) 

With malice toward none ; with charity for all ; with firmness in the right, 
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; 
to bind up the Nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne 
the battle, and for his widow and his orphans — to do all which may 
achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all 
nations. 



8 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

LINCOLN ANECDOTES. 

{These may be recited or read by the pupils, or %voven into a dialogue, each 
pupil telling which he likes best. ) 

Shortly after he was inaugurated, when ofifice-seekers were besieging him, 
and important news of the outbreak in the South was coming to him hourly, 
he said : "I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, 
that he can not stop to put out the fire that is burning the other end." 

To his cabinet, who asked him whether it would be right to allow the 
archtraitor, Jacob Thompson, to slip out of the country disguised, Mr. Lincoln 
replied: "Well, let me tell you a story. There was an Irish soldier here 
last summer who wanted something to drink stronger than water, and stopped 
at a drug store where he espied a soda fountain. ' Mr. Doctor,' said he, 
' give me, plaze, a glass of soda water, and if you can put in a few drops of 
whisky unbeknown to anyone I'll be obleeged.' Now," continued Mr. Lin- 
coln, "if Jake Thompson is permitted to go through Maine unbeknown to 
anyone, what the harm ? So don't have him arrested." 

One day the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens called with an elderly lady in great, 
trouble, whose son had been in the army, but for some offense had been 
court-martialed, and sentenced either to death or imprisonment at hard labor 
for a long term. There were some extenuating circumstances, and after a full 
hearing the President turned to the Representative and said: "Do you think 
this is a case which will warrant my interference?" " With my knowledge of 
the facts and the parties," was the reply, "I should have no hesitation in 
granting a pardon." "Then," returned Mr. Lincoln, "I will pardon him;" 
and he proceeded forthwith to execute the paper. The gratitude of the 
mother was too deep for expression, save by her tears. 

When a friend brought to his attention the fact that a member of his 
Cabinet was seeking for the nomination, while Mr. Lincoln was candidate for 
renomination, the President accepted the announcement with the utmost good 
humor and said : " My brother and I were once plowing corn on a Kentucky 
farm, I driving the horse and he holding the plow. The horse was lazy, but 
on one occasion rushed across the field so that I, with long legs, could hardly 
keep pace with him. On reaching the end of the furrow I found an enor- 
mous ' chin fly ' fastened upon him, and knocked him off. My brother asked 
me what I did that for. I told him I didn't want the old horse bitten in that 

way. 'Why,' said my brother, 'That's all that made him go.' If Mr. 

has a presidential ' chin fly ' biting him, I'm not going to knock him off, if it 
will only make his department go." 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 9 

After Mr. Lincoln's nomination jn i860, an admiring hatter sent him a 
new silk hat. Mr. Lincoln put it on, and walked to the glass to see if it fitted, 
and remarked to his wife: "Well, wife, we are going to have some new 
clothes anyway." 

Mr. Lincoln's good nature was such that even in the busy war times he 
received almost everybody who had a grievance, and would even give pre- 
cious time to those who had no particular claim upon his attention. On one 
occasion Robert Dale Owen called upon him to read him a long manuscript, 
on one of the abstruse subjects with which that rather erratic thinker loved to 
deal. Mr. Lincoln heard him patiently all through, and when the author 
looked up to him for his opinion, responded: " Well, for those who like that 
sort of thing, I should think that is just the sort of thing they would like." 

JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY. 

"Well, my child," he said, in his pleasant, cheerful tone, "what do you 
want so bright and early in the morning ? " 

" Bennie's life, please," faltered Blossom. 

"Bennie? Who is Bennie?" 

" My brother, sir. They are going to shoot him for sleeping at his post." 

"Oh, yes;" and Mr. Lincoln ran his eye over the papers before him. 
" I remember. It was a fatal sleep. You see, child, it was a time of special 
danger. Thousands of lives might have been lost for his culpable negligence." 

" So my father said," replied Blossom gravely; " but poor Bennie was so 
tired and Jemmie so weak. He did the work of two, sir, and it was Jemmie's 
night, not his; but Jemmie was too tired, and Bennie never thought about 
himself, that he was tired, too." 

"What is this you say, child? Come here; I do not understand," and 
the kind man caught eagerly, as ever, at what seemed to be a justification of 
an offense. 

Blossom went to him : he put his hand tenderly on her shoulder and 
turned up the pale, anxious face toward his. How tall he seemed ! and he 
was the President of the United States, too. But Blossom told her simple and 
straightforward story, and handed Mr. Lincoln Bennie's letter to read. 

He read it carefully, then, taking up his pen, wrote a few hasty lines and 
rang his bell. 

Blossom heard this order given : " Send this dispatch at once." 

The President then turned to the girl and said: "Go home, my child, 
and tell that father of yours, who could approve his country's sentence even 
when it took the life of a child like that, that Abraham Lincoln thinks the life 



lo LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

far too precious to be lost. Go back — or wait until to-morrow. Bennie will 
need a change after he has so bravely faced death; he shall go with you." 

" God bless you, sir," said Blossom; and who shall doubt that God heard 
and registered the request ? 

Two days after this interview the young soldier came to the White House 
with his little sister. He was called into the President's private office and a 
strap fastened upon his shoulder. Mr. Lincoln then said: "The soldier that 
could carry a sick comrade's baggage and die for the act so uncomplainingly 
deserves well of his country." Then Bennie and Blossom took their way to 
their green mountain home. A crowd gathered at the Mill depot to welcome 
them back ; and as Farmer Owen's hand grasped that of his boy, tears flowed 
down his cheeks, and he was heard to say fervently : "The Lord be praised!" 



LINCOLN. 

GOV. R. Q. OQLESBY'S TRIBUTE. 

"Who shall measure the usefulness of the life of such a man, and who 
shall hope to do his memory justice ? In the long range and course of time, 
come what may — whether a republic grounded on the immovable foundations 
of justice and freedom, approved after long experience and ages of human 
happiness as the best form of human government still standing, or whether a 
republic, tore into factions and rent by the mad ambitions of men, in ruins — 
this monument, an enduring testimonial to humble life, glorious deeds, and 
shining example of the great citizen and martyr, will stand for the illumination 
of all men of every clime, nationality and condition, who in search of the 
highest aims and loftiest purposes of life shall come to this fountain for inspi- 
ration and hope. Here the humble may take new courage, the proud learn 
humility, the ambitious, that the true way to greatness lies through industry, 
integrity and patriotism, and all men that only the good can be truly great. 
In no other country under the sun could the obscure boy have found his 
way through the long succession of mysteries and grave events to such em- 
inence and power ; and where and in what can one be found who wielded 
power with such grace,' humility and wisdom? The living assign him his 
proper place in the affections of all men. Posterity, profoundly moved by the 
simplicity of his private life, elevated and enlightened by the purity and splen- 
dor of his administration and public services, can not fail to fix his place 
amongst those who shall rank highest in their veneration. He has gone to the 
firmament of Washington, and a new light shines down upon his beloved 
countrymen from the American constellation." 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. il 

GENERAL GRANT'S TRIBUTE. 

"To know him personally was to love and respect him for his great qualities 
of heart and head, and for his patience and patriotism. With all his disap- 
pointments from failures on the part of those to whom he had intrusted com- 
mand, and treachery on the part of those who had gained his confidence but 
to betray it, I never heard him utter a complaint, nor cast a censure for bad 
conduct or bad faith. It was his nature to find excuses for his adversaries. 
In his death the Nation lost its greatest hero. In his death the South lost its 
most just friend." 

WM. J. BRYAN'S TRIBUTE. 

"Abraham Lincoln is one of America's immortals. He grows in the 
affections of the people with each passing year. He was a product of our 
civilization, reared among the people, and their friend. As an orator, he has 
seldom, if ever, been surpassed in simplicity of expression and force of argu- 
ment ; as a patriot, he was wholly devoted to his country's welfare and fol- 
lowed lofty ideals ; as a statesman, he fought principles rather than men, and 
thus avoided the bitterness of personal antagonisms. His birth, his boyhood, 
his political contests, his public life and his tragical death combined to give 
him an unique place in our Nation's history." 

HON. HENRY WATTERSON'S TRIBUTE. 

"Where did Shakespeare get his genius? Where did Mozart get his 
music? Whose hand smote the lyre of the Scottish ploughman and stayed the 
life of the German priest? God, God, and God alone; and as surely as these 
were raised up by God, inspired by God was Abraham Lincoln ; and a thou- 
sand years hence no story, no tragedy, no epic poem will be filled with greater 
wonder, oi be followed by mankind with deeper feeling than that which tells 
of his life and death." 

SENATOR THURSTON'S TRIBUTE. 

" What we need in this country is the emancipation proclamation and the 
Stars and Stripes at every American polling place. We need a revival of the 
American flag. Let it float over every American school-house; let- the true 
story of every American battlefield be taught at every school. 

" It does not matter whether the American cradle is rocked to the music 
of ' Yankee Doodle ' or the lullaby of ' Dixie,' if the flag of the Nation is dis- 
played above it. Our Nation has stood for twelve decades, a menace to 
oppression, the hope of the oppressed, mother of republics ; her lullaby is 
sung over every cradle of liberty throughout the world. 



12 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

"On freedom's roll of honor the name of Abraham Lincoln is written 
first. The colossal statue of his fame stands forever on the pedestal of a peo- 
ple's love. About it are the upturned glorified faces of an emancipated race ; 
in its protecting shadow, liberty, equal rights, and justice are the heritage of 
every American citizen ; the sunshine of approving heaven rests upon it like 
an infinite benediction, and over it calmly floats the unconquered flag of the 
greatest Nation of the earth." 

SENATOR DEPEW'S TRIBUTE. 

"As we study the characteristics which made Lincoln great and suc- 
cessful, we find them not in the usual gifts of great statesmen. They were an 
instinct for the right, a comprehension of justice, a boundless sympathy and 
compassion, an intense and yearning love for his fellows and their welfare 
which knew neither rank nor race, but gathered within its boundless charity 
all mankind. The force and effect of this power in Lincoln can be best illus- 
trated by the contrast between him and his great antagonist, Douglas. In 
any condition of the country's affairs, when great moral questions were not at 
issue, Stephen A. Douglas would have been President. 

"A clerk in a store on starvation wages, a storekeeper without capital, 
and his business sold out by the sheriff, a surveyor earning ten or fifteen 
dollars a month, and a lawyer with no other equipment than Blackstone and 
the statutes of Illinois — such was Lincoln at a period when the accomplished 
and cultured Douglas was already the idol of his State. And yet this, on the 
threshold of such a career, with such surroundings, such teachings, and such 
impressions ; in the midst of a community which drank, Lincoln was a tem- 
perate man ; in the midst of a community that swore, Lincoln was free from 
blasphemy; in the midst of a community not highly moral, Lincoln was as 
pure as an angel ; in the midst of a community which regarded the negro as 
no better than the horse or the mule, Lincoln was an abolitionist. 

" He did not represent hereditary privileges, for he came from the plainest 
of the plain people ; he did not represent heredity, for he had none ; he did 
not represent the colleges or the universities, for he knew them not; he did 
not represent capital and great accumulations, for he had neither ; but he did 
represent the toiler upon the farm, in the workshop, upon the highway, in the 
factory, anywhere, everywhere where honest men and honest women were 
striving to better their conditions and to illustrate the dignity of labor and the 
nobility of American citizenship. 

"Lincoln knew nothing of the dignity, so far as it is expressed in man- 
ner and dress, which belongs to high station. The instinctive sense of pro- 
priety and consciousness of superiority and greatness which hedged Washington 
was absent in him. The test of greatness is the wearing of the halo. It 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 13 

destroyed Napoleon, it ruined two-thirds of the generals in the war, it has 
driven great and little politicians, from the commencement of our republic 
until now, into obscurity. But Lincoln was never troubled as to the size of 
his head. He never overestimated nor underestimated who he was, what he 
was, nor what he represented. He never forgot where he came from, and 
never lost sight of the fact that except by the accident of position he was 
neither better nor worse than those who placed him in the Presidential chair. 
He possessed what no other ruler ever did, or, if he did, no other ruler dared 
to use, the power of humor. The portentous solemnity of our public men 
pervades our political atmosphere, even to depressing melancholy. The less 
the statesman knows the more solemn he is, the thicker his head, the more 
owlish his bearing." 

The following shows the war President's quaint diplomatic tact: "Dur- 
ing the war John Ganson of Buffalo was a member of Congress. His face 
and his head were hairless and polished like a billiard ball. He was a Dem- 
ocrat, but supported the President. The conditions of the army were very 
blue in the East and in the West. Ganson came in one day and said : ' Mr. 
President, I am risking my re-election in supporting your war measures. The 
campaign seems very unsatisfactory. Of course, I will not give out anything 
you tell me. What is the situation at the front?' Mr. Lincoln, in his search- 
ing and sad way, looked at him for a moment as if he was about to reveal the 
secret of the whole army, and then tumbled Ganson out of the reception room 
by saying, 'Ganson, how clean you shave.'" 

PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S TRIBUTE. 

* ' It is not difficult to place a correct estimate upon the character of Lin 
coin. He was the greatest man of his time, and especially approved of God 
for the work He gave him to do. 

" History abundantly approves his superiority as a leader and establishes 
his constant reliance upon a higher power for guidance and support. The 
tendency of the age is to exaggerate, but of Lincoln certainly no one has 
spoken more highly than those who knew him best. 

"A distinguished orator of to-day has said : ' Lincoln surpassed all ora- 
tors in eloquence; all diplomatists in wisdom; all statesmen in foresight, and 
the most ambitious in fame.' 

"This is in accord with the estimate of Stanton, who pronounced him 
* the most perfect ruler of men the world had ever seen.' " 

AN ANONYMOUS TRIBUTE. 

"Abraham Lincoln, like the prophets of old, lived in the future. His 
wisdom was more than mortal; his charity more than human. His whole life 
gave evidence that he was divinely prepared for a great purpose." 



14 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG SPEECH. 

" Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this con" 
tinent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 
that all men are created equal. 

" Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that Nation, 
or any Nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met 
on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of 
that field as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that 
Nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

"But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we 
cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled 
here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world 
will Kttle note, nor long remember what we say here ; but it can never forget 
what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the 
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly carried 
on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before 
us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for 
which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly 
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that the Nation shall, un- 
der God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, 
by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 

MY CAPTAIN. 

O captain ! my captain ! our fearful trip is done ; 
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize- we sought is won; 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting. 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. 

But, O heart! heart! heart! 

O the bleeding drops of red, 
Where on the deck my captain lies. 

Fallen, cold and dead. 

O captain ! my captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; 

Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills. 

For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, 

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning ; 

Here captain ! dear father ! 

This arm beneath your head ; 
It is 5ome dream, that on the deck 

You've fallen, cold and dead. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 15 

My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still ; 

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will ; 

But the ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, 

From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won. 

Exult, O shore, and ring, O bells! 

But I, with mournful tread, 
Walk the deck, my captain lies 

Fallen, cold and dead. 

— JValf Whitman on the Death 0/ Lincoln. 

OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF HORTAL 

BE PROUD. 

(Lincoln's Favorite Poem.') 

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, 
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. 

The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade. 
Be scattered around and together be laid ; 
And the young and the old, and the low and the high, 
Shall molder to dust and together shall lie. 

The infant, a mother attended and loved. 
The mother, that infant's affection who proved, 
The husband, that mother and infant who blessed, ' 
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest. 

The maid, on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, 
Shone beauty and pleasure — her triumphs are by. 
And the memories of those who have loved her and praised 
Are alike from the minds of the living erased. 

The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne. 
The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn, 
The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave. 
Are hidden and lost in the depth of the grave. 

The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap, 
The herdsmen, who climbed with his goats up the steep. 
The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread. 
Have faded away like the grass that we tread. 



i6 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

The saint, who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, 
The sinner, who dared to remain unforgiven. 
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just. 
Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. 

So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, 
That withers away to let others succeed ; 
So the multitude comes, even those we behold, 
To repeat every tale that has often been told. 

For we are the same that our fathers bave been ; 
' We see the same sights that our fathers have seen ; 
We drink the same stream, and we view the same sun, 
And run the same course that our fathers have run. 

The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think ; 
From the death that we shrink from, our fathers would shrink ; 
To the life that we cling to, they also would cling ; 
But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing. 

They loved, but the story we can not unfold; 
They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; 
They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; 
They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. 

They died — ah ! they died — and we things that are now. 
Who walk on the turf that lies over their brow, 
Who make in their dwelling a transient abode. 
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage-road. 

Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, 
We mingle together in sunshine and rain; 
And the smiles and the tears, the song and the dirge. 
Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 

'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, 
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death. 
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud. 
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 

— PVm. Knox. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 17 

MR. LINCOLN'S POEM. 

« 

The follounng poem was written by Mr. Lincoln when ne was about thiiiy- 
five years old. The occasion was a visit to the neighborhood of his old Indiana 
home to make a political speech in behalf of Henry Clay. 

My childhood's home I see again, 

And sadden with the view; 
And still, as memory crowds my brain. 

There's pleasure in it too. 

Oh, memory ! thou midway world 

'Twixt earth and Paradise, 
Where things decayed and loved ones lost, 

In dreamy shadows rise. 

And freed from all that's earthly vile, 

Seem hallowed pure and bright. 
Like scenes in some enchanted isle 

All bathed in liquid light. 

And dusky mountains please the eye. 

When twilight chases day; 
As bugle notes that passing by, 

In distance die away. 

As leaving some grand waterfall, 

We lingering list its roar; 
So memory will hallow all 

We've known, but know no more. 

Near twenty years have passed away. 

Since here I bid farewell 
To woods and fields, and scenes of play, 

And playmates loved so well. 

Where many were but few remain, 

Of old familiar things ; 
But seeing them to mind again 

The lost and absent brings. 

The friends I left that parting day, 

How changed, as time has sped; 
Young childhood grown strong manhood gay, 

And half of all are dead. 



i8 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

I heard the loud survivors tell 

How naught from death could save, 

Till every sound appears a knell, 
And every spot a grave. 

I range the fields with pensive tread, 
And pace the hollow rooms, 

And feel (companion of the dead) 
I'm living in the tombs. 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

They say that God no longer talks with men ; 
And when some man to fame attains, quite free 
From college lore or school's traditions, be 
He grand and pure as saint of old, 'tis then 
They cry self-made as tho' beyond their ken. 
How mind attuned to Divinity, 
Interprets well the mighty symbols He 
Doth hourly trace on life with powerful pen. 
Then not self-made, but God-wrought let us say 
Of these great souls, whose very printed deeds 
Illume our hearts by hint of God-like sway 
That thrills and lifts us far above earth's needs 
And dragging cares. The modern prophets they 
Decrying each his age's Baalist creeds. 

Our martyred hero Lincoln was of these ; 
For who can think that his serene, clean soul 
Of only worldly wisdom sought a toll — 
Caught but ambition's message from the breeze 
That whispered thro' the gloomy forest trees ? 
Who doubts while cleaving clean the mighty bole, 
He fought with self and wrong till o'er him stole 
A quickened sense which his great work foresees. 
And having struggled up to heights where God 
Affords to stoop to men, henceforth no more 
He strove, but like a child obeyed and trod 
The higher, rocky way, heartsick, footsore, 
Afar from shade or flower-sprinkled sod, 
With prescience dim of martyrdom in store. 

— Marietta Hoover Dunn. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 19 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

This man whose homely face you look upon, 

Was one of Nature's masterful, great men ; 

Born with strong arms that unfought victories won, 

Direct of speech, and cunning with the pen, 

Chosen for large designs, he had the art 

Of winning with his humor, and he went 

Straight to his mark, which was the human heart ; 

Wise, too, for what he could not break he bent. • 

Upon his back a more than Atlas' load, 

The burden of the Commonwealth was laid ; 

He stooped, and rose up with it, though the road 

Shot suddenly downwards, not a whit dismayed. 

Hold, warriors, councillors, kings! All now give place 

To this dead Benefactor of the Race ! 

—R. H. Stoddard. 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

He went about his work, — such work as few 
Ever had laid on head and heart and hand, — 

As one who knows, where there's a task to do, 

Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace command. ] 

So he went forth to battle on the side 

That he felt clear was Liberty's and Right's, 

As in his peasant boyhood he had plied 

His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting mights. 

So he grew up, a destined work to do, 

And he lived to do it; four long-suftering years 

Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report lived through, 

And then he heard the hisses change to cheers. 

The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise, 

And took both with the same unwavering mood: 

Till, as he came on light, from darkling days, 

And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood. 

— Torn Taylor. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES, 

OUR PILOT. 

Voice. 

Who guided our noble ship of State 

Through crimson seas of strife? 

Who saved it from the rocks of fate, 

And waves that sought its Hfe ? 

Who stood so nobly at the helm 
Through voyage four years long? 

When dangers threatened to o'erwhelm. 
Who kept his courage strong ? 

And when our gallant ship of State 

Into safe harbor sailed, 
What name in all the land was great, 

With joyous honors hailed ? 



All. 



We know the name. We know it well. 
With gratitude our hearts now swell, 
As Abraham Lincoln's name we tell. 



THE PARDON. 

'Twas in the war-times early days, 
When eyes looked forth with anxious gaze,. 
A young lad had been doomed to die, 
And would'st thou know the reason why ? 

He had been placed as sentinel, 
And at his post asleep he fell, 
And for that closing of his eyes. 
Before him dreamless slumber lies. 

The President read the sentence through. 
And murmured "The act I cannot do. 
Brought up on a farm, at work late kept. 
Poor boy ! No wonder that he slept." 

And o'er the paper he drew his pen, 
And signed his pardon there and then. 
Great-hearted man ! Shall I unfold 
What later on the sequel told ? 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

At Fredericksburg, among the slain, 
A lad beyond all mortal pain, 
Was lying by himself apart, 
A picture next his youthful heart. 

'Twas Lincoln's picture that he wore, 

And just beneath these words it bore — 

*'God bless Abraham Lincoln." Thus he showed 

The debt of love to him he owed. 

— Popular Educator. 

LINCOLN. 

With Hfe unsullied from his youth, 

He meekly took the ruler's rod, 
And wielding it in love and truth 

He lived the noble work of God. 
He knew no fierce unbalanced zeal. 

That spurns all human differings, 
Nor craven fear, that shuns the steel. 

That carves the way to better things. 

And in the night of blood and grief. 

When horror rested on the ark. 
His was the calm, undimmed belief 

That felt God's presence in the dark ; 
Full well he knew each wandering star 

That once had decked the azure dome 
Would tremble through the clouds of War, 

And, like a prodigal, come home. 

He perished ere the angel Peace 

Had rolled War's curtains from the sky, 
But he shall live when wrong shall cease— 

The good and great can never die ; 
For though his heart lies cold and still 

We feel its beatings warm and grand. 
And still his spirit's pulses thrill 

Through all the councils of the land. 

The flag of strife at length is furled 
Rebellion drops the gory knife ; 

The spring of peace glides up the world, 
Its buds are bursting into life. 



22 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

Beneath the death clouds low and dim, 
The serpent shrinks in black despair ; 

We lift our ey6s to freedom's sun, 
And see the eagle hovering there. 

Oh, for the hosts that sleep today, 

Lulled by the sound of Southern waves ; 
The sun that lit them in the fray 

Now warms the flowers upon their graves ; 
Sweet flowers that speak Hke words of love 

Between the forms of friend and foe, 
Perchance their spirits meet above. 

Who crossed their battle-blades below. 

'Twas not in vain the deluge came, 

And systems crumbled in the gloom, 
And not in vain have sword and flame 

Robbed home and heart of life and bloom; 
The mourners' cross, the martyrs' blood, 

Shall crown the world with holier rights, 
And slavery's storm, and slavery's flood, 

Leave Freedom's ark on loftier heights. 

— James G. Clark, 



LINCOLN. 

In all the Heaven one object holds my gaze, 
Compelling witness of a reverent heart, 

And ever, as I look increased amaze 

That mighty soul does to my soul impart. 

It bids me see in every clime and race 

The common bond that makes the world akin 

To find the fatherhood in every face ; 

To feel the love that brotherhood should win. 

With malice none — with charity for all 

It led a nation in its darkest hour, 
As though in silence it heard but the call 

Of Hini who sent His own, divinest power. 
Oh, son of sons ! all time to come will scan 

Thy wondrous soul and cry, "Behold the Man!" 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 23 

WHEN LINCOLN DIED. 

When Lincoln died a universal grief 

Went round the earth. Men loved him in that hour. 

The North her leader lost; the South her friend; 

The nation lost its savior ; and the slave , 

Lost his deliverer ; the most of all, 

Oh, there was sorrow 'mid the humble poor, 

When Lincoln died. 
When Lincoln died, a great soul passed from earth. 
In him were strength and gentleness so mixed 
That each upheld the other. He was firm 
And yet was kind ; as tender as a child. 
And yet as iron-willed as Hercules. 
His power was almost limitless, and yet 
His mercy was boundless as his power. 
And he was jovial, laughter loving still. 
His heart was ever torn with suffering. 
There was divine compassion in the man ; 
A God-like love and pity for his race, 
The world saw the full measure of that love 

When Lincoln died. 
When Lincoln died a type was lost to men. 
The earth has had her conquerors and kings, 
And many of the common great. Through all 
She only had one Lincoln. There are none 
Like him in all the annals of the past. 
He was the growth of our new soil ; a child 
Of our new time ; he was an American ; 
Was of the people, from the lowest rank ; 
And yet he scaled with ease the highest height. 
Mankind one of its few immortals lost, 

When Lincoln died. 

When Lincoln died, it seemed a providence; 

For he appeared as one sent for a work. 

Whom, when that work was done, God summoned home. 

He led a splendid fight for Liberty ; 

And when the shackles fell, the land was saved, 

He laid his armour by and sought his rest, 

A glory sent from Heaven covered him 

When Lincoln died. 

— J. A. Edi:^erton. 



24 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES. 

WE SING HIS PRAISE. 

O Lincoln ! great, and wise, and good, 
Our gratitude to thee is due ; 

A man beloved and understood, 
Sojjust, so loyal, and so true! 

Struggling, striving, pushing onward, 
Ever doing what seemed best ; 

Guarding, guiding, planning union. 
Peace, and love, and rest. 

So now our Lincoln I would crown 
With evergreens so fair ; 

And may his name forever live, 
Our love for him declare. 

All {with school) repeat. — 

And ever anew our hearts shall love 

His glorious deeds, his life, his name ; 
And ever anew our voices sing 
In loyal praise our hero's fame^ 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

Mid the names that fate has written 
On the deathless scroll of fame, 

We behold the name of Lincoln 
Shining like a living flame. 

Mid the deeds the world remembers, 
(Deeds by dauntless heroes done,) 

We behold the deeds of Lincoln, 
Blazing like a brilliant sun. 

Mid the hves whose light illumines 
History's dark and dreadful page, 

We behold the life of Lincoln, 
Lighting up an awful age. 

When the storm of peril threatened 
His loved land to overwhelm, 

Safe the ship of state he guided. 
With his hand upon the helm. 

-Statesman, ruler, hero, martyr — 
Fitting names for him, I say, 
Wherefore, let us all as brothers. 
Love his memory today. 
• Susie M. Best. 



pebruary 



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* '■ — '1 1^ z ^ 2 1_ — '1 : ^ — ^--..-^ 

FEBRUARY is crowded witF] holi- 
days and birthdays of noted persons, 
It contains more special days that 
give occasioq for school celebrations 
and observations thaq any other 
month[, 

Lincoln's Birthday, - Pebruary 1 2 
St. Valentine's Day, - " 14. 

Washington's Birthday, " 22 

Lowell's Birthday, - " 22 

Longfellow's Birthday, " 27 

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"HOW TO CELEBRATE" contains full and complete programs for 
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FIN DE SIECLE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES for 

Primary, Intermediate and High Schools. Spicy recitations, dialogues, 
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THE WASHINGTON GUARDS AND LADIES OF HONOR. A 

happy combination drill and cantata, including the attractions of each, 
but made so easy that almost any school can give it. Introduces George 
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Rose March and Drill. For sixteen girls. > 

Spear Drill. For sixteen girls. ) 

Similar to Hatchet March and Drill. While not intended specially 
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numbers for any program. Bach 15 cents. 



American Patriotic Songs. 

FOR SCHOOLS. 

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Blackboard Stencils 

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New Lincoln Sten- 
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Size, 5 ct. Stencils 18x24 in.; 

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Home at Springfield 10 

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Portraits of 

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St. Valentine's Day.... 

In many schools a delightful time is had by 
having a post-office in the school room. Allow the scholars to send val- 
entines to one another, (not comics). The teacher may send one to each 
scholar. This will create an era of good feeling. 

Valentines. 

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with rococo edges, very pretty design 
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you. 
One of Our Novelties. 




One of Our Novelties. 



15 1900 



March Brothers, Lebanon, Ohio. 



School=Room Decorations. 

Alhambra Decorative Paper. 

A new and ingenious article of manufacture for in and out-door 
decorations and ornamentations. It consists of running strips of 
fringed tissue papers, of the best quality and highest colors, so fast- 
ened around linen thread that 
it can be wound or hung in 
any form or design desired. 
May be made into stars, ban- 
ners, wreaths, etc., or hung in 
festoons. After shaking out, 
the strands are about 3 inches 
in diameter. 

Made in the following 
colors : Red, White and Blue, 
(Tri-color), Pink, Purple, 
Lemon, Black, White, Green, 
Orange, Dark Blue, Red, Lilac, 
Light Blue. 
Put up in rolls of 10 yards of a color. (We do not sell less than a 
roll). Price per roll, including postage, 35 cents. 





Alhambra Wreaths. 



Wreaths made of Alhambra 
Decorative Paper, 16 inches in 
diameter, mounted on paste- 
board. Very nice. May be had 
in any color. Price, including 
postage, each 25 cents. 



Letters for Mottoes. 

Many persons have difficulty in making mottoes on account of 
their inability to cut out letters correctly. ^Ve have P^o^^^f ed 8-inch 
letters, printed on cardboard. These letters may be 
used as they are, or cut out and covered with Alhambra 



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Paper or evergreen. 1 1. u * . «,^ 

It is not necessary to buy the whole alphabet, we 
will send just the letters necessary for your motto 1 eu 
us what the motto is, and remit for the number of letten 
it contains. Price of each letter, postpaid, 2 cents. 



All goods in this Catalogue sent postpaid at prices 
quoted. 



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New Celebrations for 

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL . 
FLAG DAY, BIRD DAY. 

Arfan§fed by 

MISS IDA M. HEDRICK. 

Ample material of all kinds— Songs, ReciUfions, 
Dialogues, etc., from which the teacher may select 
a full program suited to her grade. 

The author has had large experience in writing 
and compiling entertainments, and has learned to 
provide the much coveted material that insures a 
successful entertainment. 

Not a dull number in the collection. 

PRICE, Postpaid, 25 Cents. 



MARCH BROTHERS, Publishers, 

48 East Mulberry Street, 

LEBANON, OHIO. 



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9ke^in dediede 6mes 







...^f Operettas, t^hibiticn S)rilhf 
^pedal S)ai{ t^erehes, and 
tipeetaeular Entertainments. 



9nee, 15 'Cents taek. ^^^ 





I. THE TWO INVITATIONS. For ThanVsjiving. A jolly new operetta. Fun from 
iMginning to end. The music is bright and catchy. Full of clever hits. Easy to give. 
For 4 boys and 5 girls. 

a. NOVEMBER'S CROWN. A new Spectacular F.niertainment for Thanksgiving. 
E»sy to preteat, b\it wonderfully brilliant and pleasing. A sinking success. For 14 boys 
and girli. 

3. FIN DE SIECLE THANKSOIVINQ EXERCISES. Contains material for several 
entertainments. Separate program for each grade. Origin;il songs, recitations, dialogues, 
and many other features. Bright, enthusiastic, sensible. 

4. FIN DB SIECLE CHRISTflAS EXERCISES. Sii^iilar 10 Thanksgiving Exercises. 
Incomparably the best book of Christmas Exercises published. 

5. A SURPRISED QRUHBLER, or how Kriss Kringle Made a Convert. A new 
Christmas operetta. Brilliant music and sparkling words. Full of life. Original, jolly, 
and clever; sure to capiivate the audience. Requires about twenty-five minutes. 

«. 5UNFLOWER flARCH. for sixteen boys. 

7. ROSE HARCH AND DRILL, for sixteen girls. 

8. SPEAR DRILL, for sixteen girls, 

9. CHRISTHAS STAR riARCH AND DRILL. Variout figures of fancy march**. 

and a captivating drill. Superbly brilliant. For 16 or 34 girls. 

These drills ^Nos. 6 to g) are simple and easy to get up, require no scenery, can be 
produced indoors or out, without special music, and are picturesque in efiecl. All ar« 
made pertei-tly clear and plain by means of diagrams that are fully explanatory. These 
drills are exceedingly effective in their execution, and are especially adapted for reprc* 
senta.tion at Church or School Enicrtaininents. 

10. PIN DE SIECLE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY EXERCIS6>, for Primary, In- 
termediate, and High Schools. Spicy recitations, dialogues, tableaux, original songs, and 
other features. Nothinj; impractical or undesirable. Just what every teacher wishes. 

II. THE WASHINqTON GUARDS AND LADIES OP HONOR. A happy combi- 
nation drill and cantata, including the attractions of each, but made so easy that almost any 
school can give it. Introduces George and Martha Washington in solos and a duet. Can best 
be given by ten boys and ten girls, though fewer will answer. Delightfully pleasing. 

la. HATCHET HARCH AND DRILL. A new spectacular entertainment for Wash- 
ington's Birthday, for ritiier 16 or 34 boys. Not difficult, but very effective and beautiful. 
Decidedly unique and original. 

13. FIN DE SieCLE LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES, By ARcniMAi.n Hum 
HOLDT. For all grades. Practical and instructive, but decidcdlj' pleasing. A sure 
success. 

14. PIN DB SIECLE ARBOR DAY EXERCISES. By Mis.s Anna Sn ler. A gen 
erous collection of the choice.st quotations from noted authors, clever recitations, 
unique exercise and other splendid features Full of good things. Just what you 
need. 





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